Snokie  (1983 - Funsoft.Inc.)
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Snokie is a horizontally scrolling platform game where you must guide a penguin back to his home. You begin the game outside in a snow environment. Using the joystick to move left, right and jump, you must negotiate difficult obstacles along your path. Slipping into a crevasse or being hit by a rolling boulder will kill your penguin. A clock constantly ticks down during game play and when it reaches zero, you lose a life. If you make it far enough along the journey you will hit checkpoints which restart the clock. When you die, your next penguin will start at the last checkpoint you passed. The environment changes as you progress, offering new challenges. Ice floes need to be navigated and caverns feature stalactites that fall from the cave ceiling. If you complete the journey you are reunited with a large penguin in your cave home. The game features a normal mode and an accelerated speed mode as well as supporting two players taking turns.

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Controls 

Controls on the title screen 

 F1   = start game with chosen options 

 F3   = normal/high speed - Normal or fast speed in the game 

 F5   = 1/2 players in turns - both players use the joystick in port 2 

 Space   = view highscore list 

Joystick controls in the game 

 /  = walk left/right 
 /  = jump left/right 
 = jump 

 F7   = pause, press again to go on playing 

Keys in the game 

CRSR ⇔  = walk right 

CRSR ⇑ ⇓  = walk left 

 Space   = jump 

 F7   = pause, press again to go on playing 

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 Just for Fun 

Build into the game is a so-called "just for fun"-mode, which allows one after losing all lives to go on playing from the section where the last life has been lost. For this you press the button number for the corresponding section (  1  ,  2  , ....,  7   ). In this mode no points are counted and you also have only one life.

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Description from the packaging:

Deep in the lands of the frozen north lives a little known race called "sno-birds". Likeable and trusting creatures, they only get angry when compared to their remote cousins, the penguins. Sno-birds are highly intelligent and quite good at jumping but cannot fly. Above all, they are afraid of water. In fact, contact with water is usually fatal for a sno-bird! 

A young sno-bird names Snokie is the hero of this adventure. Snokie has been separated from his girlfriend Cara by evil "grodies" who have captured her and are now holding her prisoner deep in a snow cave. Join Snokie in his rescue attempt to save Cara! Experience the trials of an arctic adventure like none other! 

 Fast arcade action. 
 Lifelike animation. 
 Normal and high speed play. 
 "Just for Fun" play mode. 
 One or two player option. 
 Easy joystick control. 
 Seven time controlled game phases.
